Creating the Nazi Marketplace

Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvS. Jonathan Wiesen

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When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both the state and private companies sought to overcome this predicament. Drawing on a wide range of sources - advertisements, exhibition programs, films, consumer research and marketing publications - the book traces the ways National Socialists attempted to create their own distinctive world of buying and selling. At the same time, it shows how corporate leaders and everyday Germans navigated what S. Jonathan Wiesen calls 'the Nazi marketplace'. A groundbreaking work that combines cultural, intellectual and business history, Creating the Nazi Marketplace offers an innovative interpretation of commerce and ideology in the Third Reich.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-11-22
Mått153 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor292
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521746366

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S. Jonathan Wiesen is Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945–1955 (2001) - co-winner of the 2002 book prize from the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference - and the co-editor of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany (2007). His work has appeared in multiple scholarly journals, including Central European History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Journal of Contemporary History.

'In this deeply researched and richly argued book, S. Jonathan Wiesen suggests that, rather than illustrating the 'primacy of politics' over the economy, the Nazi marketplace was central to the regime's promise of future consumer abundance, the realization of individual achievement, and the creation of a purified 'racial community.' In addition to highlighting the contradictions in the regime's attempt to reconcile communal and private interests and its pursuit of rearmament and war while satisfying civilian needs, the Nazi marketplace exposed the overlapping desires of business elites and marketing professionals to preserve their autonomy from political interference while advancing the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft.' Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron